Number 260 (Story #2), February 27, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein ELEMENT 112 HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AT THE GSI LAB in Darmstadt, Germany by the same researchers who first created elements 107-111. In the present experiment, led by Peter Armbruster, physicists smashed zinc atoms into a lead target. This resulted in the production of a single atom of the new element, the heaviest yet detected in a lab, with an atomic mass of 277. (GSI press release, February 1996.)